CFI or Contract Pilot

[butt]

This isn't really for you. It's for those who are interested in a broader explanation.

In this area those exact boundaries are not there. There are things that are clearly okay; there are things that are clearly against the rules. But there is 10 mile wide border between the , not a bright clear line. We're dealing with a mixed area of law and policy. This is an area where folks have =always= tried to find the boundary you are looking for in an effort to make the duck look like a fish. They try to say (much as you have), "I know it looks like a charter, walks like a charter, and quacks like a charter, but if I just stop for gas at the passenger's destination, it's not a charter." Doesn't work because, after all, it =is= a charter.

Heck, =you= called it a charter. You know exactly what it is. Then you tried to find some other phrase. "Passenger carrying trip" was the best you could come up with. Yep, that describes it also - a trip carrying a passenger for which you got paid. If this was not a charter, the description would be easy. "I went with my friend (on a golf trip) (scuba diving) (to the beach) (for a $100 hamburger) (to a business meeting) and we took my airplane and shared the expenses."

But that's not what it is. And you know it.

You're saying since I used the word "charter" in my post, I'm wrong? I'm not trying to prove it's not a charter. I'm trying to prove it's a legal charter. Have you ever heard of private carriage? You're allowed to do private charters without a 135 certificate. My point originally was that there are certain things you have to do to insure your private carriage situation is not looked at by the FAA as a common carriage situation.

One of those methods is to make land at the passenger's airport first. Otherwise, it would be easy for the FAA to say that the extra leg was an illegal charter.

 

[moxiepilot]

How do you get all of this based on a few paragraphs I have posted on the internet about charter flights?

It may not be this alone that people are basing their observations.

Many of your posts are arguments so that "you can win." I don't feel the need to get the last word in, but just about every thread I've seen you participate in, the last poster is "butt".

It's your need to feel justified and pump your chest out (although you call it playing devil's advocate).

And, yet again, another productive thread goes the way of the swirling blue goo...